Hope After Child & Sibling Loss: An Empty Chair Endeavor Podcast

What happens when the empty chair at your table becomes permanent?

Hope After Child & Sibling Loss is a Christ-centered podcast for grieving parents and siblings who are learning to live with a loss they never imagined.

Here, grief is allowed to be honest. Faith is allowed to wrestle with hard questions. And hope doesn’t mean forgetting.

The host Greg Buffkin—who, with his wife Cathy, experienced the devastating loss of their son Ryan to suicide—invites bereaved parents, siblings, counselors, ministry leaders, and others to share the real stories behind their grief.

Together, we talk about the questions many people are afraid to ask: Where is God when life shatters? Can faith survive trauma? Is it okay to experience joy again? How does grief affect marriage, family, identity and purpose? And what does it mean to build a life you never imagined living?

There are no easy answers here. Just honest conversations, compassionate voices, biblical truth, and the reminder that you are not alone.

Because hope doesn’t forget the empty chair.

Hope After Child & Sibling Loss is part of The Empty Chair Endeavor.

DISCLAIMER: The views, beliefs, and opinions expressed by our guests may not necessarily be shared by this podcast or its host. We believe there is only one triune GOD: the Father, His son Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit. We believe that

Jesus humbled himself to become fully human, conceived by the virgin Mary through the Holy Spirit, retained his divine character and identity, lived a sinless life, executed on a Roman cross as an atonement for the sinfulness of mankind, buried, and raised back to life three days later to offer the hope of eternal life to all who would receive his free gift by grace through faith. Jesus tells us in John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

* Reaching over 100 countries with messages of hope.

Podcasting since 2022 • 100 episodes

Hope After Child & Sibling Loss: An Empty Chair Endeavor Podcast

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Fan Mail

I am blessed to say I am Deana’s (favorite) 🥰sister. I am so proud of her today! Thank you for this so much! This was so healing for her and she needed to do this! I love her dearly and this journey has been incredibly hard and again I could not be prouder of her!

Abilene, Texas